A post I posted on the bbc article about Roy which I want to post on here...

[Tktd]

Hope you enjoy!!....

How about we ask another question - Could Redknapp do a better job at Fulham than Roy?!

Why you use Redknapp at Tottenham as a mediator is just showing as much bias as the other way around.

Hodgson for me is a better manager, and if we're being honest - and judging by Redknapps own remarks recently you can almost say Redknapp would agree.

Redknapp has spent his entire career in England and therefore you could say that's all that matters as you're english and it's what has effected you.

I personally don't really rate Redknapp as a tactical manager but more of a man manager who's picked up the trade whilst he was a player. How do I prove this - look at his transfer history. He needs big players and big finances to achieve top results - look at Portsmouth, and also the amount of cash he's chucked about at Tottenham!

When you have players being brought in of that quality, if you're a good man manager then more than half of your job is done. See Villa - The pace and aggression at which Ashely young runs and always has done at opposition defences creates problems for other teams, which means O'neill can relax a bit more and let the other teams worry about his tactics, whilst he can also brush up on the defensive aspect of his game. The better player the more complete they are and with Redknapp playing with budgets that can allow him to target the best players makes his job that much easier.

Now we compare that to Hodgson!

Hodgson has hardly any budget and the most he'll probably ever spend on average on a player at Fulham is around £5mill max. Obviously there's the one exception (only two in Fulhams history! - Compare to Tottenham) in Andy Johnson which exceed that and go way above to just over £10 million but most of Fulhams players (etuhu, Pantsil, Zamora, Davies, Murphy etc) were pulled out of various teams reserves for low cost transfers! - Murphy If I recall correctly was a free, along with Gera and Schwarzer.

Players aside though and budgets aside, you also have to look at the bigger picture - The time Redknapp spent in England winning...!? The F.A Cup!!! - Hodgson has taken obscure teams like Switzerland to World Cups ad European Championships, whilst also taking them to ranking 3rd in the world. He's managed at Inter Milan, getting them into UEFA Cup finals and taking them to 3rd and 7th respectively whilst winning titles year in year out in 2 other countries.

That aside he's a memeber of UEFA's Technical committee and is one of the most respected men in european football, with many of the premier league managers admitting to going to his training open days to learn from him.

Now lets look at what he's done at Fulham, with Fulhams resources.

When he came to Fulham we hadn't won away for I think 1 or 2 years. We were rock bottom and by quite a margin too. He had 17 matches to come in, with a club who's mentality on and off the pitch were at rock bottom, the players low on confidence, with non existant confidence and keep us up! We had been written off by everyone, fans, tabloids every premiership fan. We stayed up on the last day, won 4 of our last 5 games and since then haven't looked back.

In his first full season he got us from Premier LEague fodder into the Europa League, beating Utd comfortably 2-0 and has lead us into this season - around 10 points off of 4th, having started our competitive season in July! 2 or 3 weeks before the premier league started.

Since then we've beaten Liverpool 3-1, Man Utd 3-0 and have hosted and beaten the reigning European Champions (something tottenham failed to do last season and whos stadium cost in excess of half a billion!), played the likes of Basle and Roma and now have a tie, where we arguably go into it as equals. We've already played up to 50 games this season and there are 10/20 left in the league alone, let alone including the F.A Cup games we have left and the double header against Juventus coming up.

Just to put things into perspective last month (when Fulham ended the month undefeated and with Hodgson and Schwarzer picking up both the player and manager of the month awards) we managed to play 8 games in four weeks, with the gap between some of these games being just two days!!!

This month our fixtures go like this - Tottenham (Fa cup QF), Juventus (last 16 europa league) , Man Utd Away, Juventus (H), Man City (H) and then Tottenham (A). Many Fulham fans expect us to find this month hard, Hodgson may come out of it undfeated and it wouldn't be because of luck either!

I find fans who don't respect Hodgson really hard to grasp, they evidently have very little knowledge of football and base their entire opinions on the team the support and not real hard facts.

A close friend to SAF, Capello and many other top managers the world over, it is a testament to his ability that he not only has their respect but is deemed by many to be their friend. A true footballing man who's life work is respected and eclipses most. He may not be a big club manager, but it's a testament to how good he is in my opinion that he isn't. His persona and everything about him suggests class and respect and that's not only to his personality off and on the pitch but his ability to get success on the pitch too!

[Jimpav]

Good points, well made. Well done.

[KCat]

Excellent , well done !!!

and it is good to know someone is keeping point on 606 .....